by porting software to Windows, we eliminate the majority of the competitive advantage of Free Software desktops in the eyes of the overwhelming majority of consumers while Microsoft has all the rope they need to shut the door once again on us
i'm going to get modded down for this, I know but...
Aside from the US vs. THEM mentality displayed by this guy, what is wrong with porting programs to windows?
By porting to windows, you give yourself a larger user base. By porting to windows you make your program easier to install (as opposed ot having to compile binaries). Lets face it, the average user will not give a fuck about linux, they just want their software to be free and easy. Adding unneeded steps to get something working reallycuts it short, becasue really, not everyone who has a computer will be technical enough to use linux.
11. Mountain Dew-nog 10. Printing out "One Year of Free Computer Service" certificates to give to the family. 9. Designing elf-killing levels for your favorite FPS. 8. Explaining to children how it would be physically impossible for Santa to deliver all the presents. 7. Wear mistletoe hat and keep fingers crossed. 6. Devise a computer-controlled system to detect and prevent household members from trying to peek into their presents before Christmas. 5. Put a santa hat on your avatar. 4. Change the blue neon lights in the case to flashing red and green. 3. Decorating the tree with SDRAM and CPUs burned out from your last overclocking experiment. 2. Rewriting Christmas carols in Tolkien's Elvish. 1. Programming the christmas lights to flash out "I hate this holiday of unbridled consumerism" in binary.
Information is the key. Get your friends to write letters to officials. Talk to politicians. From my experience many many politicians are intersted in ways to reduce the cost of operation (Lorne Calvert, Jack Layton, so forth).
If you get involved, and convince them to go opensource, you might find yourself with a job working for them as a techie/trainer assuming you have the qualifications. When I convinced the CIC (a section of the reserves) to use open source software for the public terminals, they were all over that and I ended up spending a summer in Penhold Alberta being tech support for 65$ a day.
I would have posted this earlier, but slashdot wasn't letting me post, so imagine this had been posted about 3 hours ago.
Am I the only person here is is opposed to the weaponization of space?
It costs too much, it's useless, and I doubt anyone else will feel safer at night knowing that there are space based missiles just above them waiting to go off.
George Bush at the trigger also isn't much better.
My best advice is PHPNuke. It's PHP, so its easy to deal with. It's centralized (unlike PostNuke that changed from version to version and is without standard). It has Modules, so you can easily add any new features like Calendars and Photo galleries. It's themes, and that is also easy to edit. The Block system is simple, and there is no fighting with it to get everything "just right" like there is in PHP Website.
The problem is that if everyone elects higher class, they will only look after the higher class anyways.
It's clearly defined in this Mousland Speech here:
The Story of Mouseland
as told by Tommy Douglas, 1944
It's the story of a place called Mouseland. Mouseland was a place where all the little mice lived and played, were born and died. And they lived much the same as you and I do.
They even had a Parliament. And every four years they had an election. Used to walk to the polls and cast their ballots. Some of them even got a ride to the polls. And got a ride for the next four years afterwards too. Just like you and me. And every time on election day all the little mice used to go to the ballot box and they used to elect a government. A government made up of big, fat, black cats.
Now if you think it strange that mice should elect a government made up of cats, you just look at the history of Canada for last 90 years and maybe you'll see that they weren't any stupider than we are.
Now I'm not saying anything against the cats. They were nice fellows. They conducted their government with dignity. They passed good laws that is, laws that were good for cats. But the laws that were good for cats weren't very good for mice. One of the laws said that mouseholes had to be big enough so a cat could get his paw in. Another law said that mice could only travel at certain speeds so that a cat could get his breakfast without too much effort.
All the laws were good laws. For cats. But, oh, they were hard on the mice. And life was getting harder and harder. And when the mice couldn't put up with it any more, they decided something had to be done about it. So they went en masse to the polls. They voted the black cats out. They put in the white cats.
Now the white cats had put up a terrific campaign. They said: "All that Mouseland needs is more vision." They said: "The trouble with Mouseland is those round mouseholes we got. If you put us in we'll establish square mouseholes." And they did. And the square mouseholes were twice as big as the round mouseholes, and now the cat could get both his paws in. And life was tougher than ever.
And when they couldn't take that anymore, they voted the white cats out and put the black ones in again. Then they went back to the white cats. Then to the black cats. They even tried half black cats and half white cats. And they called that coalition. They even got one government made up of cats with spots on them: they were cats that tried to make a noise like a mouse but ate like a cat.
You see, my friends, the trouble wasn't with the colour of the cat. The trouble was that they were cats. And because they were cats, they naturally looked after cats instead of mice.
Presently there came along one little mouse who had an idea. My friends, watch out for the little fellow with an idea. And he said to the other mice, "Look fellows, why do we keep on electing a government made up of cats? Why don't we elect a government made up of mice?" "Oh," they said, "he's a Bolshevik. Lock him up!" So they put him in jail.
But I want to remind you: that you can lock up a mouse or a man but you can't lock up an idea.
Nah, I'm not even going to make a joke about "drivers" and "crashing"....ahhhhh to hell with it, sure I will, "Wait unitl you hear about all the headlines of drivers crashing"
I used several VNC clients, and I found Ultra to be the best one. Acts like a video driver, has file transfers, is free, and has several other features I can't remember.
I recently had my informatiuon used against me (1800$ fanished from my account over night, which put me in a bad position as I was about to leave for vacation in 2 days). Anyways, the money was taken from where I was 3 months prior, so if this happened recently, I suggest you change what is feasibly changeibile before it bites you in the ass in a few months after you forgotten about it.
Inform people this happened, so they don't become victims too. If something had been used already, talk to whoever is in change (if your bank acocunt has been broken in to, the banks will often give you a paper to sign saying they will incur any damages as long as you don't sue them).
There may also be a victim support group somewhere to attend if you are mentally distrought, but since you are on the internet, I'm sure you have gotten around to accepting you ahve no privacy by now.
With beer being healthy for you, and recent studies showed that mice who became under the influence of pot had less cancer growth...I'm glad to say I live a healthy life style.
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by porting software to Windows, we eliminate the majority of the competitive advantage of Free Software desktops in the eyes of the overwhelming majority of consumers while Microsoft has all the rope they need to shut the door once again on us
i'm going to get modded down for this, I know but...
Aside from the US vs. THEM mentality displayed by this guy, what is wrong with porting programs to windows?
By porting to windows, you give yourself a larger user base. By porting to windows you make your program easier to install (as opposed ot having to compile binaries). Lets face it, the average user will not give a fuck about linux, they just want their software to be free and easy. Adding unneeded steps to get something working reallycuts it short, becasue really, not everyone who has a computer will be technical enough to use linux.
Java: the elegant simplicity of C++ and the blazing speed of Smalltalk
Ways Geeks Celebrate Christmas
11. Mountain Dew-nog
10. Printing out "One Year of Free Computer Service" certificates to give to the family.
9. Designing elf-killing levels for your favorite FPS.
8. Explaining to children how it would be physically impossible for Santa to deliver all the presents.
7. Wear mistletoe hat and keep fingers crossed.
6. Devise a computer-controlled system to detect and prevent household members from trying to peek into their presents before Christmas.
5. Put a santa hat on your avatar.
4. Change the blue neon lights in the case to flashing red and green.
3. Decorating the tree with SDRAM and CPUs burned out from your last overclocking experiment.
2. Rewriting Christmas carols in Tolkien's Elvish.
1. Programming the christmas lights to flash out "I hate this holiday of unbridled consumerism" in binary.
Information is the key. Get your friends to write letters to officials. Talk to politicians. From my experience many many politicians are intersted in ways to reduce the cost of operation (Lorne Calvert, Jack Layton, so forth).
If you get involved, and convince them to go opensource, you might find yourself with a job working for them as a techie/trainer assuming you have the qualifications. When I convinced the CIC (a section of the reserves) to use open source software for the public terminals, they were all over that and I ended up spending a summer in Penhold Alberta being tech support for 65$ a day.
ACtually as far as I know, until you go past the geosyncronous orbital GPS Satelites, it will still work.
As the copyright holder to that program, I will see you in court!
What about Cree, Mohawk, or Souix? Tansi Penguin :D
actually, the "cover" is not by SOAD. IT's by "the rabbit joint", just some idiot on kazaa changed it to get more hits.
I would have posted this earlier, but slashdot wasn't letting me post, so imagine this had been posted about 3 hours ago.
Am I the only person here is is opposed to the weaponization of space?
It costs too much, it's useless, and I doubt anyone else will feel safer at night knowing that there are space based missiles just above them waiting to go off.
George Bush at the trigger also isn't much better.
My best advice is PHPNuke. It's PHP, so its easy to deal with. It's centralized (unlike PostNuke that changed from version to version and is without standard). It has Modules, so you can easily add any new features like Calendars and Photo galleries. It's themes, and that is also easy to edit. The Block system is simple, and there is no fighting with it to get everything "just right" like there is in PHP Website.
I don't care about powell! When does bush and Chenny resign?
If someone mewntions suprnova, I shall sack them!
The problem is that if everyone elects higher class, they will only look after the higher class anyways. It's clearly defined in this Mousland Speech here: The Story of Mouseland as told by Tommy Douglas, 1944 It's the story of a place called Mouseland. Mouseland was a place where all the little mice lived and played, were born and died. And they lived much the same as you and I do. They even had a Parliament. And every four years they had an election. Used to walk to the polls and cast their ballots. Some of them even got a ride to the polls. And got a ride for the next four years afterwards too. Just like you and me. And every time on election day all the little mice used to go to the ballot box and they used to elect a government. A government made up of big, fat, black cats. Now if you think it strange that mice should elect a government made up of cats, you just look at the history of Canada for last 90 years and maybe you'll see that they weren't any stupider than we are. Now I'm not saying anything against the cats. They were nice fellows. They conducted their government with dignity. They passed good laws that is, laws that were good for cats. But the laws that were good for cats weren't very good for mice. One of the laws said that mouseholes had to be big enough so a cat could get his paw in. Another law said that mice could only travel at certain speeds so that a cat could get his breakfast without too much effort. All the laws were good laws. For cats. But, oh, they were hard on the mice. And life was getting harder and harder. And when the mice couldn't put up with it any more, they decided something had to be done about it. So they went en masse to the polls. They voted the black cats out. They put in the white cats. Now the white cats had put up a terrific campaign. They said: "All that Mouseland needs is more vision." They said: "The trouble with Mouseland is those round mouseholes we got. If you put us in we'll establish square mouseholes." And they did. And the square mouseholes were twice as big as the round mouseholes, and now the cat could get both his paws in. And life was tougher than ever. And when they couldn't take that anymore, they voted the white cats out and put the black ones in again. Then they went back to the white cats. Then to the black cats. They even tried half black cats and half white cats. And they called that coalition. They even got one government made up of cats with spots on them: they were cats that tried to make a noise like a mouse but ate like a cat. You see, my friends, the trouble wasn't with the colour of the cat. The trouble was that they were cats. And because they were cats, they naturally looked after cats instead of mice. Presently there came along one little mouse who had an idea. My friends, watch out for the little fellow with an idea. And he said to the other mice, "Look fellows, why do we keep on electing a government made up of cats? Why don't we elect a government made up of mice?" "Oh," they said, "he's a Bolshevik. Lock him up!" So they put him in jail. But I want to remind you: that you can lock up a mouse or a man but you can't lock up an idea.
Nah, I'm not even going to make a joke about "drivers" and "crashing"....ahhhhh to hell with it, sure I will, "Wait unitl you hear about all the headlines of drivers crashing"
I used several VNC clients, and I found Ultra to be the best one. Acts like a video driver, has file transfers, is free, and has several other features I can't remember.
Does somebody have a torrent of this yet? If they do, coudl they posta link so we can slashdot it and downlaod it faster...wait, that sounded weird.
The recent GDI+ vulnerability
Good thing I choose to join NOD.
/rimshot
I still want my flying car!
I recently had my informatiuon used against me (1800$ fanished from my account over night, which put me in a bad position as I was about to leave for vacation in 2 days). Anyways, the money was taken from where I was 3 months prior, so if this happened recently, I suggest you change what is feasibly changeibile before it bites you in the ass in a few months after you forgotten about it.
Inform people this happened, so they don't become victims too. If something had been used already, talk to whoever is in change (if your bank acocunt has been broken in to, the banks will often give you a paper to sign saying they will incur any damages as long as you don't sue them).
There may also be a victim support group somewhere to attend if you are mentally distrought, but since you are on the internet, I'm sure you have gotten around to accepting you ahve no privacy by now.
Yea well I have 1000 MB account with Gmail....erm..wait....~thinks~ ~re-calculates the difference~ Oh...sorry, carry on.
Am I the only person who read that as RadioShack is no longer vaporware? You have no idea how confused I felt.
I felt a great disturbance in the force. As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, then was suddenly silenced.
With beer being healthy for you, and recent studies showed that mice who became under the influence of pot had less cancer growth...I'm glad to say I live a healthy life style.
Well, duh, I get all my political informatino from fark.com, doesn't everyone?
I've tried all my DVDs and they all work fine, and I have suffered absolutely no proble#$#$%$%$#%@#%%@$%@#$%REF$%$F^............NO CARRIER.